Plein-air art workshop

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Artist David Csont demonstrates how to paint the lily pond behind the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts on Friday morning. Afterward, participants dispersed to find a spot along the North Concho River and decide on their own image to paint.

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Artist David Csont demonstrates how to paint the lily pond behind the San Angelo Museum of Fine Artson Friday morning. Afterward, participants dispersed to find a spot along the North Concho River and decide on their own image to paint.

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Doris Jones, of Brady, sketches the outline of a statue she plans to paint behind the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts on Friday morning as part of a plein-air painting workshop led by artist David Csont.

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Artist David Csont laughs and jokes with other artists Friday morning as he paints a lily pond.

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Artists face the North Concho River as they pick out images to sketch and paint Friday morning.

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Treva Boyd, of Christoval, bends over her sketch of long grass and a spray of flowers Friday morning outside the museum.

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Susan Mansell, of Ballinger, watches with other students who signed up for David Csont’s three-day plein-air art workshop.

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Artist David Csont demonstrates how to paint the lily pond behind the San Angelo Museum of Fine Artson Friday morning. Afterward, participants dispersed to find a spot along the North Concho River and decide on their own image to paint.

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Artist David Csont lightly mixes paint at his work station outside the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. Friday he and artists who signed up for his workshop picked scenes along the river to sketch, take notes on and paint.

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An artist, after taking instructions from David Csont, applies brush to paper as she captures an image found along the North Concho River.

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Angelo State University art student Lupita Moreno concentrates on a stretch of wall covered with foliage and stone steps leading up to a door.